Created by Buzzcut Productions Review by Marina Funcasta Summerhall - Anatomy Lecture Theatre ★★★★ Buzzcut Productions combines cameras, puppets, diorama sets and a remarkably peculiar story to create a spellbinding, though uncanny, depiction of rural English suburbia. Emerging from a similar world to Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Tim Burton’s Coraline, this Wonderland is, … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Bark Bark
https://youtu.be/G76ezrzIiPU Choreographed by Giovanni Zazzera Review by Marina Funcasta CARTS - Studio: Tickets ★★★★★ As a former performer myself, I was initially struck by the directness of Alexandre Lipaux’s facial expressions while watching Negare. Singling out members of the audience, Negare is definitely not the type of show one enters and hopes to hide behind … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Negare
Choreographed by Giovanni Zazzera Review by Marina Funcasta theSpace@ Surgeon's Hall: Tickets ★★★★ Crawling onto the stage, wide-eyed and expectant, Prince Imogen’s christening opens with a sense of childish play. Although lacking a religious ceremony, Wolodarsky retrospectively tugs at the golden thread that sews together the tapestry of his lifelong quest for self-understanding. A messy … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Christening of Prince Imogene
Written by Ramesh Meyyappan Directed by Matthew Lenton Produced by Raw Material & Vanishing Point in association with Aberdeen Performing Arts Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly George Square: Tickets Touring Dates & Tickets ★★★★ Misunderstandings are so common that the fragility of language has inspired countless artworks. To precisely locate this communicative failure, however, a … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Love Beyond
https://youtu.be/Tlby2iHxiNQ Directed by Tom Costello Review by Marina Funcasta theSpace@SurgeonsHall: Tickets ★★★★ A presence from the minute we hear the opening voice recording telling us to switch off our ‘cell phones’; with a character like Brett’s, he definitely doesn’t need anyone else with him on stage. Highly-wired, this fifty-minute monologue flies past, boasting an enthusiasm … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – Brett Epstein: Alone on Stage
Written by Kieran Hurley & Gary McNair Directed by Orla O’Loughlin Review by Marina Funcasta ROUNDABOUT @ Summerhall ★★★★ Watching adult performers play children is always a risk, especially with older men playing adolescents; from Willy Russel’s ‘Blood Brothers’ to Darren Barnet in ‘Never Have I Ever’, the self-awareness that comes with age and maturity is … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – VL
Based on the book by John Hart and Julie Welch Written and Directed by Martin Murphy Review by Marina Funcasta Underbelly Bristo Square - The Dairy Room: Tickets ★★★★ If the 27-club extended to football, John White could’ve spearheaded it. Struck by lightning in 1964, White left a team, a country, but most painfully, a … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – The Ghost of White Hart Lane
https://youtu.be/ZqDwf7RKWJQ Co-created and Performed by Louis Abbott, Louis McCraw, Kim Grant, Jo Mango & Solareye Directed by Liam Hurley Review by Marina Funcasta Assembly Roxy: Tickets ★★★★★ For such an early morning show, it’s safe to say that Liam Hurley and Jo Mango’s devised piece does not hold back. Packing an emotional punch, Claire Halleran’s … Continue reading Review: Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024 – A Giant on the Bridge
Sounds ridiculous, right? Scottish people, rapping. No, seriously. And not only is it accurate, but Scottish hip-hop is an exceptionally underestimated blending of nuanced storytelling, cultural portals and progression of lyric, rhythm and rhyme – and now, with the arts embracing the digital medium, Scottish People Can't Rap?! takes things to a new, virtual level. To change … Continue reading Scottish People Can’t Rap?! – Preview
